Patents by Inventor Joseph C. Marino

Joseph C. Marino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5736676
    Abstract: A floor structure electrical junction apparatus mounted within a structural slab for providing electrical power connections and communication connections. A load bearing chassis has one or more generally rectangular apertures and a top portion having a vertically recessed lip portion circumscribing inwardly facing peripheral edges of each aperture. One or more receptacle modules are constructed to fit within the apertures, where each of the receptacle modules provides a plurality of electrical power or communication connectors. Two or more upstanding support members depend from the top portion where the support members rest upon a bottom portion of the structural slab. The support members have flanges horizontally projecting toward a central portion of the aperture, the flanges being disposed below the recessed lip portion for supporting a bottom portion of the receptacle module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Inventors: Michael S. Stelter, Joseph C. Marino
  • Patent number: 5188240
    Abstract: A storage unit or rack for recording-media boxes such as CD boxes or other such containers which rack supports the boxes in a series of parallel substantially horizontal planes or in planes inclined at some other angle. The rack has one or more pairs of sidewalls lying in planes which intersect at right angles and which engage two adjacent side edges of each box and leave the other two side edges of each box facing outwardly and exposed so that they are visible for reading labels on the boxes and to provide easy access for placement and removal of such boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Robert K. Hanson
    Inventors: Peter C. Marino, Robert K. Hanson, Joseph C. Marino